List of Things we Gotta Do
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of “universal access to all knowledge.”[notes 2][notes 3] It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. As of October 2016, its collection topped 15 petabytes.[4] In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet.
The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains more than 308 billion web captures.[notes 4][5] The Archive also oversees one of the world’s largest book digitization projects.